European Science Editing 52: e165929, doi: 10.3897/ese.2026.e165929
Standard terminology for peer review: commenting and proposing the inclusion of two new categories
Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral‡‡ University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Champaign, United States of America
Corresponding author: Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral ( janedoamaral27@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Charlotte Rowbottom © Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Amaral JCd (2026) Standard terminology for peer review: commenting and proposing the inclusion of two new categories. European Science Editing 52: e165929. https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2026.e165929 |  |
Abstract
In July 2023, version 3.0 of standard terminology for peer review was published by the National Information Standards Organization. The terminology approaches four aspects of the peer review process: identity transparency, reviewer interacts with, review information published, and post-publication commenting. Using examples of open peer review models with public participation implemented by open access journals covering different subjects, the inclusion of two new categories in the next version of the terminology is proposed herein: manuscript review and pre-publica-tion commenting.
Keywords
ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023, open peer review, peer review terminology, public peer review, reviewers